From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 29 22:11:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4935F16A4D7 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:11:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp2.server.rpi.edu (smtp2.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1E0943D31 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:11:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp2.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i8TMAwoB021680; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:10:59 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:10:57 -0400 To: TM4525@aol.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) Subject: Re: Freebsd 5.2.1 Performance Woes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:11:06 -0000 At 5:51 PM -0400 9/29/04, TM4525@aol.com wrote: >While I was had a nice little test set up, I figured I'd test >Freebsd 4.9 against 5.2.1 since I had fresh installs handy on >separate drives. It would be interesting to try a fresh install of the most recent 5.3-beta ISO's. A lot has changed between 5.2.1 and today, and some of that should result in significant performance improvements. Note that 5.2.1 was released back in February. A lot has changed. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu